The Psychoanalytic Work of Hansi Kennedy: From War Nurseries to the Anna Freud Centre (1940-1993)

by Jill M. Miller (Editor), Carla Neely (Editor)

Overview

This book presents a selection of the works of Hansi Kennedy, preeminent child psychoanalyst, whose career began with Anna Freud in the Hampstead War Nurseries and continued at the Hampstead Child Therapy Clinic (renamed the Anna Freud Centre in 1982) until retirement in 1993. Her career spanned a significant period in the development of child psychoanalysis, as her ideas foreshadowed a number of advances in theory during the period which have had a profound impact on child psychoanalytic technique.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781855755239
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/07/2008
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Jill M. Miller

Table of Contents

Introduction — The Making of a Child Analyst — Memory — Cover Memories in Formation — Problems in Reconstruction in Child Analysis* — The "Baby at the Breast" Experience: Memory or Fantasy? Some Further Thoughts on Reconstruction* — Both Sides of the Barrier: Some Reflections on Childhood Fantasy* — Insight — The Role of Insight in Child Analysis: A Developmental Viewpoint* — Conflict and Developmental Disturbances — Pseudobackwardness in Children: Maternal Attitudes as an Etiological Factor* — Some Reflections on Infantile Neurosis* — Childhood Neurosis vs Developmental Deviations: Two Clinical Case Histories — Different Types of Sado-Masochistic Behaviour in Children* — Steps from Outer to Inner Conflict Viewed as Superego Precursors* — The Developmental Roots of Self-Injury and Response to Pain in a 4-Year-Old Boy* — For or Against Child Placement: A Clinical Illustration* — Growing up with a Handicapped Sibling* — Trauma in Childhood: Signs and Sequelae as Seen in the Analysis of an Adolescent* — Reflections on the Aim of Child Analysis* — Analytic Technique with Pre-Latency Children — The Technique of Psychoanalysis with the Pre-Latency Child* — Psychoanalytic Work with the Under-fives: Forty Years' Experience

Editorial Reviews

For many if not all of those fortunate enough to work with her, Hansi Kennedy and her gifted collaborative teaching opened the doors to understanding how to work with children and adolescents. Her accessible humanity softened what otherwise might have seemed rigid and formulaic; she therefore allowed her supervisees to see and to use connections and meanings in their work with their young patients, as they arose and as they developed. The selections in this book are just a sample of Hansi’s thinking and will go far in keeping the focus on the child’s developmental welfare and in exemplifying the best in psychoanalytic developmental thinking and technique.

Robert L. Tyson

”Hansi Kennedy is undoubtedly one of the giants of psychoanalysis, particularly the psychoanalysis of children. Her work has moved the field forward in dramatic ways, including in the treatment of borderline children and the use of developmental help. Miller and Neely are to be congratulated for bringing together an integration of her work that has the quality of crystal clarity characteristic of Kennedy’s clinical writings and supervision. The book is vibrant with compelling clinical examples that will be enormously helpful to novice and experienced child clinicians alike. Kennedy’s writings, like those of Winnicott, Bion and Bowlby, yield fresh insights to the reader with each re-reading. This book is of immense value and is destined to become a classic.

Professor Peter Fonagy

”Hansi Kennedy is undoubtedly one of the giants of psychoanalysis, particularly the psychoanalysis of children. Her work has moved the field forward in dramatic ways, including in the treatment of borderline children and the use of developmental help. Miller and Neely are to be congratulated for bringing together an integration of her work that has the quality of crystal clarity characteristic of Kennedy’s clinical writings and supervision. The book is vibrant with compelling clinical examples that will be enormously helpful to novice and experienced child clinicians alike. Kennedy’s writings, like those of Winnicott, Bion and Bowlby, yield fresh insights to the reader with each re-reading. This book is of immense value and is destined to become a classic.”

“For many if not all of those fortunate enough to work with her, Hansi Kennedy and her gifted collaborative teaching opened the doors to understanding how to work with children and adolescents. Her accessible humanity softened what otherwise might have seemed rigid and formulaic; she therefore allowed her supervisees to see and to use connections and meanings in their work with their young patients, as they arose and as they developed. The selections in this book are just a sample of Hansi’s thinking and will go far in keeping the focus on the child’s developmental welfare and in exemplifying the best in psychoanalytic developmental thinking and technique.

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